719387 - Paragraph is left aligned while style inspector reports text-align:"justify"

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: Inspector: Rules, defect, P3)

Description

[Stefan]

Attachment: testcase

User Agent:  

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open testcase. Inspect the last paragraph.


Actual results:

1. Paragraph is left aligned but style inspector reports it is justified.


Expected results:

1. Report the effective alignment.

Comment 1

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

Confirmed on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:12.0a1) Gecko/20120119 Firefox/12.0a1 ID:20120119031105

Comment 2

[Mike Ratcliffe [:miker] [:mratcliffe] [:mikeratcliffe]]

Interestingly, text-align: justify; is inheritable and because it is specified on body the paragraph *should* also be justified as far as I can see.

Comment 3

[Kevin Dangoor]

It looks like the user agent stylesheet overrides text-align for table. If the paragraph wasn't in a table, it would probably be justified.

Comment 4

[Mike Ratcliffe [:miker] [:mratcliffe] [:mikeratcliffe]]

Font styles are overridden within tables in quirks mode by quirk.css:
table {
  text-align: start;
  white-space: normal; /* compatible with IE & spec */
  line-height: normal;

  /* Quirk: cut off all font inheritance in tables except for family. */
  font-size: -moz-initial;
  font-weight: -moz-initial;
  font-style: -moz-initial;
  font-variant: -moz-initial;
}

table, td, th, tr, thead, tbody, tfoot, colgroup, col {
  border-color: gray;
}

As to why the style inspector misses this style I am not sure ... we will have to investigate.